This chapter travels across the mammoth steppe and the cave painter world, where huge seasonal gatherings, long distance exchange, and astonishing art hint at societies far more complex than we ...

The illustration represents a reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge we now have from the Adycha mammoth. (Image by Beth Zaiken / CPG) ...

Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. “Finding mammoth bones ...

A fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world’s oldest DNA sequence. It’s the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal remains ...

"This DNA is incredibly old. The samples are a thousand times older than Viking remains." The mammoth was not actually a woolly mammoth: Around one million years ago there were no woolly mammoths. The ...

Scientists have made one mammoth discovery – literally. The oldest DNA ever sequenced – more than 1 million years – has been extracted from three mammoth teeth that had been excavated from Siberian ...